SUE HEALEY & KEN BUTTI | 'On View: Icons NANETTE HASSALL AM (born 1947)' | Photographic print on rag paper"NANETTE HASSALL AM (born 1947) graduated from the Juilliard School in New York and then joined the Merce Cunningham Dance Company touring extensively in the USA and Europe. She performed, taught and choreographed for major companies in both Europe and Australia before returning to Australia to teach at VCA (1981 85) and founding and directing Danceworks, a professional dance company in Melbourne between 1983 and 1990. She was Head of the Dance

"This painting is about collecting bush dyes and bush fibres to make waangk (dillybags)

I started making art in high school with my mates

based in Gimuy/Cairns

TYPOLOGY AND MEDIUM

Image size: 1200 x 385 mm

NETTA LOOGATHA | 'My Country VIII' | Painting / stretched | Synthetic polymer paint on linen | 60 X 90cm

drawings & illustrations

MELODY WOODNUTT | 'The Apparition' | 2025 | Wool / silk / wood / sound / lighting / 16mm film | 500 (h) x 800 (w) x 200 (d) cm

damaged and discarded items

We lived in humpies then - no clothes nothing at all

rooted and firm within

such as Ubar or Wongai (native plum)